March Madness

Apr 2 2013

Replaces Ben Howland

LOS ANGELES, Calif. — Steve Alford was introduced today as UCLA’s head basketball coach, saying accepting the job was a “leap of faith” for him and his family, but the allure of the university’s storied basketball tradition was hard to pass up.

“When a place like UCLA calls — when you think of excellence and when you think of college basketball at its pinnacle, it’s UCLA basketball,” Alford told reporters in Westwood.

Apr 2 2013

Lead Florida Gulf Coast to Sweet 16

LOS ANGELES, Calif. — USC has reached an agreement with Florida Gulf Coast coach Andy Enfield to become its men’s basketball coach, athletic director Pat Haden announced.

Mar 18 2013

Game set for Friday

LOS ANGELES, Calif.—UCLA received the sixth seed in the South Region and will play 11th-seeded Minnesota Friday in Austin, Texas, in the NCAA men’s basketball tournament.

“We had hoped that we were going to go to San Jose,” Bruin coach Ben Howland said today after the tournament bracket was announced. “That was obviously our first choice cause it’s closest to home, best for our fans to be able to support their team.”

Mar 13 2013

No. 1 Gonzaga won the West Coast Conference tourney

Another team will earn an automatic bid into the NCAA men’s basketball tournament with a conference tournament victory Wednesday.

Bucknell and Lafayette were scheduled to meet in the Patriot League final at 7:30 p.m. EST.

The winner will join the teams that have already automatically qualified for the NCAA field:
• Belmont (Ohio Valley Conference)
• Creighton (Missouri Valley)
• Davidson (Southern)
• Florida Gulf Coast (Atlantic Sun)
• Gonzaga (West Coast)
• Harvard (Ivy League)

Mar 21 2011

Three ways to win

Sixty-eight teams. Some will be underdogs. Some will be top seeds. Only one will emerge the winner.

There's something about the excitement surrounding the college basketball tournament every March that makes it absolutely infectious. Rooting for a long shot? Cheering on a sure thing? It doesn't matter; you simply have to be a part of it.  

This year, make your house the center of the action and invite friends and family over to cheer on their favorites as the Cinderella stories play out and the real talent rises through the brackets.

Across Black America

Here’s a look at African American people and issues making headlines throughout the country.

California
San Diego college students and volunteers will carry out their sixth home restoration project on Wednesday, July 10 through Sunday, July 14. as part of the “Healing our Heroes’ Homes” (H3) program created by the nonprofit Embrace. The five-day effort will take place at the home of medically retired Marine Corps Capt. Sarah Bettencourt. Bettencourt served with many different units across the country during the Global War on Terrorism and developed a rare neurological disorder in 2008. With a focus to restore the homes of disabled veteran homeowners, H3 falls in line with Embrace’s mission to mobilize college-student volunteers and community members to serve less fortunate members of civilian and veteran communities. The project for the Bettencourts’ home includes kitchen and bathroom remodeling, building ADA-compliant disability ramps, widening their driveway to ADA standards, widening doorways and landscaping.
 
District of Columbia
The 2013 Smithsonian Folklife Festival will showcase its five-year community research project on African American identity with the program “The Will to Adorn: African American Diversity, Style, and Identity.” This multicity collaboration examines the history and culture of the aesthetics of African Americans. The festival will be held June 26-30 and July 3-7, outdoors on the National Mall between Seventh and 14th streets. “Whether we realize it or not, we are all dress artists. The way we compose our look is a creative expression of our ideas about who we are and who we aspire to be,” said Diana N’Diaye, program curator. “This program explores the diversity of African American traditions of style, but also teaches young people the importance of documenting their own culture and saving that information for themselves and future generations.”